John o donnell



(No Model.)

' J. ODONNELL.

Ball Cover.

No. 240,327. Patented April' 19, I881.

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N-PETERS. PHOTWLITNOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. D C.

\UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN ODONNELL, OF RUTHERFORD PARK, NEW JERSEY.

BALL-COVER.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 240,327, dated April 19, 1881.

Application filed October 26, 1880. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN ODoNNELL, a citizen of the United States,,residing at Rutherford Park, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented and produced a new and useful Improvement in Ball-Covers, of which the following is the specification.

My invention consists in certain novel improvements in the method of covering the ball proper, and in the shape of the leather forming said covering, the object being to produce a ball-cover which will preventthe waste of leathernecessary in stamping or cutting out any ball-cover now in existence, and save time and labor in sewing, the construction and application of which will be herein fully pointed out and described.

Figure 1 shows the drawing of one-half the cover, the two being similar in all their parts. Figs. 2 and 3 show the cover in diiferent posi tions, as it appears on the ball.

The method of sewing on the cover is the same as in the ordinary ball, and needs no description here.

Heretofore the stamping or cutting out of 2 5 the trifurcated or other covers caused great waste of leather.

My improvement saves one-half the leather which is now thrown away, and the time and labor saved in sewing is one-third less than 30 any ball-cover patented, which is a desideratum in the manufacturing of base-balls, and never before attained.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let- 3 5 ters Patent, is-- A cover for balls, composed of two pieces of leather cut into the shape shown, so as to prevent the waste of leather in stamping or cut ting out, and to save time andlabor in sewing, 4.0 as herein set forth.

JOHN ODONNELL.

-Witnesses:

JAMES SUGRUE, J OHN H. BRICK. 

